Privacy Policy

The short version

• We store your account details, your companions, your chats and his photos so Beau works and he remembers you.
• Your messages are sent to our AI providers to write his replies and make his photos.
• We don’t sell your data, and we don’t use your chats for advertising.
• You can delete a companion or your whole account yourself, any time.

Beau is run by GBY Media LLC (“we”, “us”). This policy covers beauaiboyfriend.com and app.beauaiboyfriend.com.

What we collect

• Account: email address, display name, date of birth (to confirm you’re 18+) and your password, stored only as a secure hash.
• Companions: the name, age, look and personality you choose, his portrait, and short memory notes he keeps about things you tell him.
• Chats and photos: your messages, his replies, and the photos he sends.
• Notifications: your timezone (so morning messages arrive in your morning), whether you want emails, and the push address of each device where you turn notifications on. Turn either off any time under Account, or with the link in any email.
• Usage: daily counts of messages and photos, to apply plan limits.
• Billing: your plan, subscription status and the ID Stripe gives your customer record. Stripe handles your card details and billing address; we never see your full card number.
• Safety: if a message suggests someone may be in crisis, we show support resources and add one to an anonymous daily count, with no message content, for companion-chatbot reporting laws such as California SB 243.
• How you found us: if you arrive from an ad, a tagged link or another website, a first-party cookie notes the source (such as the ad campaign or the referring site) and the page you landed on, for up to 90 days. If you sign up, we save that source with your account to see which channels work. It isn’t shared with anyone.
• Technical: a login cookie that keeps you signed in for up to 30 days, and the basic request data (such as IP address) our hosting provider handles to deliver the service and block abuse.

How we use it

To run Beau: generate his replies and photos, keep his memory of you, apply plan limits, take payments, keep the service safe and enforce our Terms, answer your emails, and meet legal obligations. We read individual chats only when you ask us to (for example in a support request), when needed to investigate abuse or a safety problem, or when the law requires it.

Who we share it with

We share data only with the service providers that run Beau for us, and only what each one needs:

• Cloudflare hosts the website and app and stores your account, chats and photos.
• Anthropic (Claude) receives your messages, your companion’s profile and memory notes to write his replies and plan photos.
• Replicate, running Black Forest Labs’ FLUX image model, receives photo descriptions and his portrait to create his photos.
• Resend sends our emails, such as your companion’s morning message, and receives your email address and the message preview.
• Your browser’s push service (for example Apple or Google) delivers notification pings if you turn them on. The ping carries no message text; your device fetches the message from us.
• Stripe processes payments and receives your email address and payment details.
• Google (Google Ads tag) uses cookies to measure which ads lead to sign-ups and purchases. It never receives your chats.

We may also share information if the law requires it, to protect someone’s safety, or as part of a sale or merger of the business, in which case this policy would continue to apply. We do not sell or rent your personal information, and we don’t share it for cross-context behavioural advertising beyond the ad measurement described above.

How long we keep it

We keep your data while your account is open. When you delete a companion, his chat and photos are erased. When you delete your account, your account, companions, chats, photos and usage counts are erased straight away; copies in our database backups expire within 30 days. Stripe keeps payment records for as long as tax and financial laws require.

Your choices and rights

• Delete: remove a companion from the chat menu, or your whole account under Account.
• Access or export: email us and we’ll send you a copy of your data.
• Correct: update details in the app, or email us.
• Ad cookies: you can block cookies in your browser or opt out of personalised Google ads in your Google ad settings.

Depending on where you live (for example California, other US states, the UK or the EU), you may have further rights, such as to know what we hold, to object to or restrict processing, or to complain to a data protection authority. Email hello@beauaiboyfriend.com to use any of these rights; we’ll reply within 30 days and won’t treat you differently for using them. Where the EU or UK GDPR applies, we process your data to provide the service you signed up for (contract), to keep it safe (legitimate interests), to meet legal obligations, and for ad cookies, with your consent where required.

Security

Connections are encrypted, passwords are hashed, and photos are only served to the account they belong to. No system is perfectly secure; if a breach affects your data, we’ll tell you as the law requires.

Adults only

Beau is not for anyone under 18. If we learn we hold data from someone under 18, we delete the account.

Where data is processed

We are based in the United States, and our providers may process data in the US and other countries. Where required, we rely on the providers’ standard contractual safeguards for those transfers.

Changes

If we change this policy in a way that matters, we’ll update the date above and tell you by email or in the app.

Contact

GBY Media LLC, hello@beauaiboyfriend.com.